Employers should note that Acas early conciliation timescales are changing from 1 December 2020.

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“the scheme”) was, at the last minute, extended in October from 5 November 2020 for a month, with little to no guidance available at the time as to how this would work in practice.

The chancellor has just announced a pretty big u-turn and extended the furlough scheme until the end of March 2021. The Government will pay up to 80%.

​The lasting complications of a brain tumour can have devastating effects, affecting the way you walk, talk, feel and think, which can lead to prejudice and discrimination in the survivors everyday life. A survey by Headway UK has found that survivors of brain injury are often bullied, harassed and ridiculed for their disabilities.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Thursday announced further changes to the Job Support Scheme, which has been put in place to subsidies businesses unable to have their staff back working full-time as the varied degrees of lockdown continue.

David Bradley, Head of Employment at Ramsdens Solicitors, has featured on HR Grapevine, where he has given his opinion on a worker, whose boss has demanded her pay back £20,000, after being overpaid for 10 years.

The Chancellor has announced an extension to the Job Support Scheme (itself only launched two weeks ago) aimed at supporting business during COVID. Effectively a local furlough scheme, this one pays employee’s 2/3rds of their wage up to a cap of £2100pm if their employer is forced by law to close due to COVID.

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